Make a Promise to Yourself

Just.One.Person.

This idea was started here, by joe at the Crabby Shack. You should go there and read it for yourself before reading on here.

Just.One.Person.

As a cop, I can tell you that I work every single shift with the mindset that I am going home at the end of it. Every car stop, every domestic, and every fight.

Granted, I am in a line of work where I am put in those situations more than others. But that does not matter. We all have the potential of having to face a goblin.

What are you going to do when it is your turn? Have you thought about it? You should. The goblins do. A lot. Every day of their lives, they do, you can bet on it. So what are you going to do?

Again, as a cop, I can tell you that the police will not be there to protect you. I wish that weren't so, but it is. It is just logistically impossible. I work an area where the vast majority of the time we have two officers covering 200 miles of road. The State Police in this area are spread even thinner. We react to crime. We can not protect everyone all of the time.

People need to be able and willing to defend themselves. That means YOU.

Promise yourself that no matter what you come across, or which goblin you are facing, YOU ARE GOING HOME AT THE END!!!! The more of you that have that mindset, the safer the country will be, whether it is your local crack head looking for his next fix, or a Bin Ladin wannabe picking your mall for his path to his 72 virgins.

Just imagine if there had been one person in one of the classrooms at VT that had made that promise to himself or herself. Think about it.